--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > > Ben Hur > > > We started with Ben Hur X-mas eve... > > > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSDXrDQEDjg > > > > > Ben Hur meets Jesus > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6LHWyaeEHY > > Chariot race (this is the longest clip--10 minutes--that > I could find): > > http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x89udi_ben-hur-chariot-race_shortfilms > > If you can watch it full-screen, you get some faint sense > of what it was like to see in a movie theater. It remains > a masterpiece of filmmaking. (No CGI!)
This materpiece race was staged by Yakima Canutt, the grandfather of modern stuntmen, and his son doubled for Charleton Heston in long shots and some dangerous situtations. They also lost a ($100,000 at the time - 1959) 65mm Mitchell motion picture camera which crashed to the ground when one of the chariots smashed into the camera platform.
